Outsourcing Empire (eBook)

How Company-States Made the Modern World

Andrew Phillips, J. C. Sharman (Autoren)

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2020
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20620-2 (ISBN)

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How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states-not sovereign states-drove European expansion, building the world's first genuinely international system. Company-states were hybrid ventures: pioneering multinational trading firms run for profit, with founding charters that granted them sovereign powers of war, peace, and rule. Those like the English and Dutch East India Companies carved out corporate empires in Asia, while other company-states pushed forward European expansion through North America, Africa, and the South Pacific. In this comparative exploration, Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman explain the rise and fall of company-states, why some succeeded while others failed, and their role as vanguards of capitalism and imperialism.In dealing with alien civilizations to the East and West, Europeans relied primarily on company-states to mediate geographic and cultural distances in trade and diplomacy. Emerging as improvised solutions to bridge the gap between European rulers' expansive geopolitical ambitions and their scarce means, company-states succeeded best where they could balance the twin imperatives of power and profit. Yet as European states strengthened from the late eighteenth century onward, and a sense of separate public and private spheres grew, the company-states lost their usefulness and legitimacy.Bringing a fresh understanding to the ways cross-cultural relations were handled across the oceans, Outsourcing Empire examines the significance of company-states as key progenitors of the globalized world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.6.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 9 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Adam Clulow • Ann Carlos • atlantic slave trade • Atlantic World • Australian Research Council • Bankruptcy • Between Monopoly and Free Trade • British Empire • British South Africa Company • Capitalism • Charter city • Charter Company • Chartered company • Christopher Nierstraz • Colonial empire • Colonialism • Commerce by the Frozen Sea • Commodity • Company rule in India • Competition • Congo Free State • Corruption • cross-cultural • David Veevers • debt • de facto • dichotomy • dividend • Dutch East India Company • Dutch West India Company • early modern period • Emily Erikson • Employment • Europe • Foray • Frank Lewis • Freedom’s Debt • fur trade • Geopolitics • Globalization • Governance • Great Power • Griffith University • hegemony • Holy Roman Empire • Iberian Union • imperialism • Infrastructure • Institution • International Law • International Politics • International Relations • International Studies • In the Shadow of the Company • J. (newspaper) • joint-stock company • Legal Personality • Limited liability • Longevity • Mentorship • Metropole • Michael Wagner • militarization • Modernity • Mughal emperors • Mughal Empire • napoleonic wars • Nationalization • naval warfare • new imperialism • non-state actor • North America • Partnership • Philip Stern • Political Science • Precedent • Prerogative • Princeton University Press • Principal–agent problem • Privateering • Profit Maximization • Routledge • Royal African Company • royal charter • Ruler • Rupert's Land • Russian-American Company • seasteading • Shareholder • Share Price • Sharman • South Asia • Southeast Asia • sovereign state • Sovereignty • spice trade • Subsidy • Superiority (short story) • Supply (economics) • Suzerainty • Tax • The Company and the Shogun • The Company-State • The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History • The Dutch and English East India Companies • The English Chartered Trading Companies • The North West Company • The Sovereign State • Trade-off • Trading Company • Trading Post • Treaty • Tristan Mostert • United States territorial acquisitions • Vassal • warfare • Wealth • West Africa • Westphalian Sovereignty • William Pettigrew • World History • Zimbabwe
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20620-1 / 0691206201
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20620-2 / 9780691206202